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Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

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Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
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Desire Home Philosophy Sick
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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Children Cure Music Solution
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Accident is simply unforeseen order.
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Action Order Perspective Simplicity

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

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